Cross-Platform-Development

Here is a quick introduction to style your Clojure JavaFX application via CSS using the garden library. Intro I am still working on a desktop application built with Clojure and fn-fx and I am making good progress, pretty happy with it so far. When I gave a talk about it at the Clojure meetup Berlin, I was asked about how it looks. Well it might not be spectacular, but I was actually quite happy with the default look of it. Yeah, despite being a Java app! It might be hard to be believe when you still remember the stuff from the 90s and 00s, but check it out yourself: ...

why not use Electron? A few days ago I gave a talk at the Clojure Meetup Berlin about building GUIs with Clojure and JavaFX. Here is the abstract: Building declarative GUIs with Clojure, JavaFX and fn-fx (Dr. Nils Blum-Oeste) JavaFX is the current standard GUI framework included in most Java distributions and the successor to Swing. It is readily available via interop to any Clojure developer. I would like to give an introduction to an alternative approach using halgari/fn-fx: A thin Clojure wrapper around JavaFX by Timothy Baldrige that allows building GUIs declaratively from a single application state atom instead of dealing with the mutable JavaFX objects directly. ...

As stated in a previous post I am in the process of building a GUI application and I would like to use Clojure for that. In this post I would like to write about my experiences building a small app for evaluation of the halgari/fn-fx Clojure library that aims at building GUIs with JavaFX in a declarative way, similar to what React does for the browser DOM. Disclaimer: Why not Electron? I also considered using Electron but I would prefer a solution that runs on the JVM so that I can make full use of that. However, if you can live with the JS runtime I would definitely recommend checking out Electron too. Probably I will have a follow-up post about Electron. :) ...

As I am in the process of developing an application for data analysis on chemical data the need for building a desktop GUI came up. Why desktop you ask? Excellent question! I think for this particular project, the combination of ease of use, data privacy and performance make it worth exploring an approach with a local, self-contained application instead of anything involving remote servers. Actually in the end we might build a SaaS too or move to such a model completely. ...

Being an early adaptor for Construct 2, it was about time to get a game built with it out of the door. I think I bought this in 2011 for 30€ or something like that. With an increasing interest in educational apps and new teaching and learning approaches I finally dug into Construct 2, building a complete, yet simple game. Without further ado: Color Duel can be found an Google Play Screen2 Screen4 Screen8 ...